Lanxess is investing €25 million in China to create a new high-tech plastics production facility and a new technical rubber products technology centre.

Scientists at the University of York have taken part in developing a way of using plants to clean up land contaminated by explosives.

ABB has won a $120m order from the Saudi Electricity Company to provide power to Saudi Arabia’s first university for women, the Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University.

Canadian Hydro Developers is to acquire the rights to a 4,400MW offshore wind project in Ontario from Park City, Utah-based Wasatch Wind.

Researchers have found a way to mimic conditions in intestines with millifluidic perfusion cassettes, an advance that gives them a mechanical model for the real-time growth of bacterial infections. 

Private industry has been urged to join a public-sector commitment to fund advanced manufacturing research and development in bioprocessing.

TriAccess Technologies has developed a line of high sensitivity radio frequency integrated circuits designed for use in Fibre-to-the-Home applications.